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baptise
English
Verb
baptise (third-person singular simple present baptises, present participle baptising, simple past and past participle baptised)
- Alternative form of baptize
Translations
French
Verb
baptise
- first-person singular present indicative of baptiser
- third-person singular present indicative of baptiser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of baptiser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of baptiser
- second-person singular imperative of baptiser
Anagrams
- bipâtes
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French bapteme.
Noun
baptise
- Alternative form of bapteme
Etymology 2
From Old French baptiser.
Verb
baptise
- Alternative form of baptisen
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purge
English
Etymology
From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin p?rg? (“I make pure, I cleanse”), from p?rus (“clean, pure”) + ag? (“I make, I do”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /p?d?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??d?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
Noun
purge (plural purges)
- An act of purging.
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
- A cleansing of pipes.
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
- That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Arbuthnot to this entry?)
Derived terms
- Great Purge
Related terms
Translations
Verb
purge (third-person singular simple present purges, present participle purging, simple past and past participle purged)
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
- (transitive, religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
- We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country's crimes.
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
- "What did they die of?" I asked.
"Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died."
"He bled and purged babies?"
"They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway."
- "What did they die of?" I asked.
- 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
- (transitive, of a person) To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.
- (transitive, of an organization, by extension) To forcibly remove people from.
- (transitive, law) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
Translations
Anagrams
- Grupe, repug
French
Verb
purge
- first-person singular present indicative of purger
- third-person singular present indicative of purger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of purger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of purger
- second-person singular imperative of purger
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
purge f (plural purges)
- (Jersey) purgative
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